A man shot a woman to death inside a Metairie home as deputies responding to 911 calls zeroed in on the house Friday night (Dec. 2), authorities said. Family and friends said the woman was a 35-year-old mother of two.

The suspected shooter, Ronald Mitchell, 39, walked out of the home after shooting the woman and surrendered his weapon to officers, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said late Friday. It did not say if Mitchell was arrested, but said he lived at the home.

JPSO did not name the victim, and did not specify her relationship to Mitchell.

Officers were dispatched to the 5700 block of Aero Street in Metairie at around 8:26 p.m. Friday, after calls reporting an armed suspect there, according to Col. John Fortunato, JPSO spokesman.

Responding officers were flagged down and told the suspect was inside a home, armed with a handgun. A few moments later, the officers heard gunshots coming from within the home. Then Mitchell came out.

Police found the body of the woman lying on the kitchen floor suffering from several gunshot wounds, Fortunato said.

The victim was pronounced dead on the scene.

Deputies investigated the incident as a JPSO chaplain consoled the woman's relatives outside.

"She was a very sweet and kind woman," said a woman who was among the relatives, and who did not provide her name.

Another woman, who said she had been friends with the victim for 24 years, said the victim had a boy and a girl and was divorced.

Shortly before the coroner's van arrived, the victim's relatives carried a crying woman to a neighbors' chair across the street from the home where the killing took place.

Neighbors said the family living in the home had moved in only a couple of months ago. No one reported hearing shots or any commotion until JPSO units showed up.

"I'm in shock, this is such a quiet neighborhood," said a resident who declined to be named.